"We were souvenir hunting [on Juno Beach after the D-Day invasion]...and then we ran
into these bodies, stacked like cordwood. Germans in one pile, British in another. Here
we were, these guys were dying and we were picking up souvenirs. I didn’t think that was
a nice thing for us to be doing, so I went back aboard the ship. I quit doing that." (Video
Interview, 48:34)

Max Lilley joined the Coast Guard shortly after Pearl Harbor was attacked because it was
"the thing to do" and he liked their uniforms better than those of the Merchant Marines.
As a gunnery officer, Lilley sailed around the world, stopping at ports in North Africa,
India, and Europe, and France. Mr. Lilley’s ship participated in the invasion of
Normandy on D-Day, successfully delivering British "Desert Rats" onto Juno Beach.